Arhivski vjesnik, Vol. 51 No. 1, 2008.
Professional paper
Archival collection in the Museum of the City of Split
Tea Blagaić Januška
; Muzej grada Splita, Split, Hrvatska
Abstract
Archival materials, kept in the separate collection in the Museum of the City of Split, are as much varied as activities of the Museum itself, pervading into all fields of communal life: cultural, social, economical, artistic, and urbanistic. Materials belonging to the Archival Collection are devided into fonds and subcollections. Amongst them are present personal papers, those of significant individuals and families, but also institutional fonds, of different societies and organizations. They date from 14th till second half of the 20th century. Specificities of the Collection's position, inside the Museum as non-archival institution, are similar to all kindred institutions. They influence issues of collecting and acquring archives, same as those of their treatment, i.e. of arrangement and description of archives. Problems of the variety of approaches in the treatment of archival collections and its fonds and subcollections, typical for non-archival institutions, have not yet been solved, despite efforts tending to implement rules and principles of museological and archival profession. Mostly it is connected to the implementation of the principle of provenance typical for archival science, and of the description and treatment of individual documents characteristic for museology, which are two different practices. The most significant attributes of the Archival Collection in the Museum of the City of Split are wideness, diversity and fragmentation of contents. Archival materials have been acquired systematically from the very beginning of the Museum's existence, by redemptions and gifts, and this kind of activity has always been taken seriouosly. In that sense the Collection is of significant importance for the history of Split, but also of wider community.
Keywords
archives; archival collection; archival fonds; non-archival institutions; museum; museum’s object
Hrčak ID:
29511
URI
Publication date:
8.12.2008.
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